Meanings of secretary of defence in английском

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As former secretary of defence Bob Gates has said, we won't buy the same horse twice.

The newly empowered Democrats were today renewing calls for Donald Rumsfeld to be sacked as the US secretary of defence.

During his time in the post, he also performed stints as acting secretary of defence and deputy secretary of defence.

Photo: AP Mr Shanahan's tenure saw the longest ever period that the US has been without a permanent secretary of defence.

But Phantom Doctrine does not ease you in, and soon you'll want to beg the secretary of defence for a demotion.

After a protracted and bitter battle over his confirmation, Chuck Hagel finally started as secretary of defence at the Pentagon yesterday.

David Sedney was the American deputy assistant secretary of defence in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia from 2009 until May last year.

Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defence, is also delighted at the beneficial effect that medical intervention has had on the president.

Madam, - I notice that the new US secretary of defence, Robert Gates, believes that the US is not winning the war in Iraq.

Stewart recounts one big disappointment -an anodyne interview with Donald Rumsfeld in 2011 that failed to claim the former secretary of defence's scalp.

Mary Beth Long, an assistant secretary of defence in the Bush administration, said the US should consider carrying out air strikes to stop missile tests.

Richard Nixon's condition in his final days was dire enough that his secretary of defence effectively cut him out of the nuclear chain of command.

The national security adviser, the secretary of defence, the head of the National Counterterrorism Center are all career national security managers with excellent track records.

US secretary of defence James Mattis has accused North Korea of using nuclear weapons to threaten others with "catastrophe" but said the US remained (...)

President Obama has pledged to end "Don't Ask Don't Tell", and secretary of defence Robert Gates has described a repeal as both inevitable and appropriate.